Reuters Chief and Editor of todaysalternativenews.com Condemn U.S. Killing of Journalists in Iraq
...For the past two years, we have been pointing out that the U.S. military has been targeting foreign, non-embedded, journalists because they don't want any independent photos or stories coming out of Iraq to show the brutality and killing by American trooops. See some of our articles on the U.S. policy of killing Arab and other independent journalists on our site. We are pleased that the head of Reuters News Service, Mr.David Schlesinger, has come out with the truth, that the U.S. military was responsible for these deaths...
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Reuters Chief and Editor of todaysalternativenews.com Condemn U.S. Killing of Journalists in Iraq
Sam Hamod and Agence France Presse
Editor's Note from www.todaysalternativenews.com
For the past two years, we have been pointing out that the U.S. military has been targeting foreign, non-embedded, journalists because they don't want any independent photos or stories coming out of Iraq to show the brutality and killing by American trooops. See some of our articles on the U.S. policy of killing Arab and other independent journalists on our site.
We are pleased that the head of Reuters News Service, Mr.David Schlesinger, has come out with the truth, that the U.S. military was responsible for these deaths. Of course, our military always has an excuse and none of the killers are ever found guilty by the military "inquiry"--it's exactly like the Israeli situation where they kill schoolgirls and boys and no one is ever found guilty; somehow, the American military tactics have morphed into Israeli style tactics, killing children and journalists. See his comments below, plus the fact that the American military was told where the journalists were staying--so it made it easier for our snipers and our tanks to attack their residence or to attack them in the field.
At www.todaysalternativenews.com, we suggest that the families of those killed in Iraq sue the U.S.Government and its head for these war crimes against journalists and civilians.
Sam Hamod, editor, www.todaysalternativenews.com
Reuters chief blames US military for death of three employees in Iraq
Thu Nov 18, 2:16 PM ET Mideast - AFP
LISBON (AFP) - The global managing editor of British news provider Reuters said the US military was entirely to blame for the deaths of three of its employees in Iraq (news - web sites) since the start of the war there in March 2003, an allegation disputed by the Pentagon (news - web sites).
"All of them were killed by the American army," Reuters chief David Schlesinger told reporters on the sidelines of a media conference in the southern Portuguese resort of Vilamoura, national news agency Lusa reported.
"There is no understanding on the part of the US military regarding the the exercise of journalism," he added according to the agency.
"We can't run the risk that journalists will become targets (in Iraq). We must learn the lessons from these tragic cases."
Two Reuters photographers and a cameraman are among the more than 60 war-related deaths of media workers recorded in Iraq.
The most recent death occurred in the Iraqi city of Ramadi on November 1.
The US military says a cameraman killed there while on assignment for Reuters died in a gunbattle between Marines and insurgents, but the Iraqi man's colleagues and family have said they believe he was shot by a US sniper.
Another Reuters cameraman, a Ukrainian citizen, was killed in April 2003 when a US Army tank fired on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad.
A cameraman from Spain's Telecinco television network was also killed in the strike, which injured three other reporters.
In October 2003 a Palestinian cameraman for Reuters was killed near Abu Ghraib prison during a shootout.
The US military has denied direct responsibility for those deaths as well.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told the media conference via satellite from Washington that those incidents were inevitable in a war.
"Media coverage in places of conflict is always dangerous," Lusa quoted him as saying.
He put the blame for the two deaths at the Palestine Hotel on Iraqi troops resisting the US invasion, whom he accused of using civilian structures for military purposes, leading to confusion about what is a legitimate target.
Journalists at the Palestine Hotel, including many working for US-based organizations, had informed US military authorities that they were using the hotel as a base.
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